Parablax padmuri (a species of click-beetle)
Basis for Tasmanian occurrence
Semmens, T.D., McQuillan, P.B. & Hayhurst, G. (1992). Catalogue of the Insects of Tasmania. Government of Tasmania: Department of Primary Industry, 104 pp.
TMAG collections
Classification
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Superfamily: Elateroidea
Family: Elateridae
Subfamily: Parablacinae
Morphology
Typical length (mm): 12
Flightedness: winged and assumed capable of flight
Flightedness: winged and assumed capable of flight
Ecology
Assumed larval feeding: (not yet documented)
Association with dead wood or old trees: (not yet documented)
Association with dead wood or old trees: (not yet documented)
Collection method(s) for TFIC material: — Beating vegetation (species not specified) — Flight intercept trapping — Hand collection (substrate not specified) — Hand collection from Eucalyptus nitens — Hand collection from Eucalyptus regnans — Hand collection from Leptospermum scoparium — Knockdown fogging of canopy of Nothofagus cunninghamii.
